Re: Linuxconf - web access slow

[Ahbaid Gaffoor <ahbaidg guyana net gy>]

Hi Steve,

thanks for the explanation, at least I understand why it happens now,

is there a way to improve this situation?

thanks,

Ahbaid.

Steve Borho wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 11:34:27AM -0800, Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Any reason why linuxconf takes very long to load when tried
> > via. web access?
> >
> > My Apache based web site comes up real fast...
> 
> Because apache is always running on your machine and is streamlined to
> spit HTML files out it's network connections.
> 
> When you connect to the linuxconf port, you're actually connecting to
> inetd.  inetd (by reading /etc/inetd.conf) realizes you want to talk to
> linuxconf so it starts linuxconf and passes it the network connection
> (sort of).  Linuxconf then does a bunch of stuff and then dynamically
> creates an HTML document and sends it out the network connection.  This
> process gets repeated for every HTML request you make to the linuxconf
> port.
> 
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> Steve Borho <sborho ststech com>
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